Krauthammer on the Collapse of Obama's Foreign Policy

It ain't pretty, people.  In the end, the worst of it may be this:

"It’s as axiomatic in statecraft as in physics: Nature abhors a vacuum. Islamists rush in to fill the space and declare their ascendancy. America’s friends are bereft, confused, paralyzed."

Well, DUH!  What did you think was going to happen?  It's not only the disarray of American influence under a leadership that is seemingly made of as much mendacity as naivete and incompetence and wishful defiance of reality.  (Some of the policy decisions and whatnot seem as if they sprang straight from a particularly silly chapter of high school Model UN.)  It's not only the willful sidelining of Israel in the face of Iran's nuclear ambition.  It's the seemingly blithe abandonment of the most vulnerable of all, the liberals and reformers in those wretched countries that are burning up the news outlets right now. We've proven ourselves craven to our enemies, treacherous to our natural friends, and squishy to the core.  It's all as dishonorable as it is immoral and self-destructive, and it is going to cost even more lives than it has already.